An efficient demand-assignment multiple-access scheme for satellitemobile radio dispatch networks

Conventional DAMA (demand-assignment multiple access) designs process mobile radio calls in much the same way as mobile telephone calls. In mobile radio dispatch networks, where the dispatcher is often the resource bottleneck, these designs result in the inefficient use of satellite channels. A novel DAMA design is presented that ameliorates this problem by using the block-calls-queued service discipline, batched processing of several calls by the network dispatcher, and pipelined messaging for channel setup verification. Analysis shows that the proposed design offers advantages in satellite channel utilization and DAMA signaling overhead compared to previous designs. As space segment resources are expected to be very expensive in the mobile satellite systems networks under development, the proposed procedures could result in significant cost savings     

Efficiency comparison of channel allocation schemes for digitalmobile communication networks

This paper provides network designers and operators with simple guidelines on traffic measurements and efficiency evaluation of various channel allocation schemes in digital mobile telecommunications networks. The paper evaluates the efficiency obtained by implementing the following channel allocation schemes: (1) fixed uniform channel allocation (FUCA); (2) fixed nonuniform channel allocation (FNCA); (3) dynamic channel allocation (DCA) where the number of frequency carriers is adaptive and dependent on the load; and (4) dynamic frequency/time channel allocation (DFTCA) (a new scheme which is the most efficient) where the number of channels is adaptive (based on the load), allowing two channels of the same frequency carrier to be used in two neighboring cells. The analysis is based on standard queuing models under the following assumptions: (1) Poisson call arrivals in each cell; (2) exponential call holding time; (3) exponential mobile travel time; and (4) exponential sojourn time of a mobile in a cell. Numerical results are presented to provide insight into the accuracy of the models and efficiency gain by dynamic frequency time channel allocation under different traffic conditions (including conditions related to highway traffic)     

An integrated voice and data multiple-access scheme for a land-mobile satellite system

A Land-Mobile Satellite System (LMSS) is a satellite-based communications network which provides voice and data communications to mobile users in a vast geographical area. By placing a "relay tower" at a height of 22300 mi, an LMSS can provide ubiquitous radio communication to vehicles roaming in remote or thinly populated area. LMSS is capable of supporting a variety of services, such as two-way alphanumeric service, paging service, full-duplex voice service, and half-duplex dispatch service. A Network Management Center (NMC) will handle the channel requests, channel assignments, and in general the network control functions. A pool of channels is managed at the NMC to be shared by all mobile users. An integrated demand-assigned multiple-access protocol has been developed for the experimental LMSS. The pool of channels is divided into reservation channels and information channels. The information channels can be assigned by the NMC to be either voice channels or data channels. Each mobile user must send a request through one of the reservation channels to the NMC via the ALOHA random-access scheme. Once the request is received and processed, the NMC will examine the current traffic condition and assign an information channel to the user. NMC will periodically update the partitions between the reservation channels, voice channels, and data channels to optimize system performance. Data channel requests are queued at the NMC while voice channel requests are blocked calls cleared. Various operational scenarios have been investigated. Tradeoffs between the data and voice users for a given delay requirement and a given voice call blocking probability have been studied. In addition, performance impacts of such technological advancements as satellite on-board switching and variable bandwidth assignment are discussed.     

Protocol design for mobile radio group communications oversatellite

A protocol design for a mobile radio service supporting half-duplex push-to-talk voice communications over mobile satellite systems is presented. The service enables a closed group of mobile radio users to communicate among themselves, so that a transmission from any user is received by all. A key issue is the efficient utilization of satellite channels. Demand-assignment multiple access (DAMA) is employed to allocate channels only to those user groups in active sessions of conversations. Owing to the unique characteristics of the half-duplex point-to-multipoint group communications, a new DAMA protocol is proposed for this service. Within a channel assigned to a user group, access contentions exacerbated by very long round-trip delay can occur. A signaling protocol is devised to arbitrate access contentions so as to improve the utilization of the assigned channel. The proposed access control protocol offers 65% or 18% improvement in throughput capacity compared to manual carrier-sensed access without and with collision detection, respectively     

基于混沌预测的宽带DVB-RCS卫星接入信道动态分配方案研究

该文概述了基于卫星数字视频广播-反向信道系统(DVB-RCS)标准的宽带卫星通信网的特点,并重点研究了多址接入信道的动态分配策略,在利用混沌理论对网络中的自相似业务流量进行预测的基础上,提出了一种新型混合按需分配多址接入方案。该文还利用OPNET软件建立了仿真系统,用于比较不同方案的性能。仿真结果表明,在高信道负载以及网络中业务流具有较高自相似程度的条件下,该文所提出方案具有更优越的性能。     

Capacity optimizing channel allocation schemes for multi‐service cellular systems with mobile users

In this paper, we study the blocking and dropping probability of mobile users in the multi‐service cellular systems with mobile users. Based on the idea that different services may require different signal‐to‐interference ratios and different reuse factors, we proposed a channel allocation scheme called channel partitioning to support different services using different reuse factors. Under channel partitioning scheme, the channels in each cell are divided into two or more sets of channels and each set of the channels supports certain service, depending on the required reuse factor of the service. We first apply this channel partitioning with fixed channel allocation scheme called fixed channel partitioning (FCP), where a three‐dimensional Markov chain is developed to analyze the impact of the mobile user. After that a simpler model, which can estimate the numeric result from the closed‐form solution, is presented to make the analysis easier. In order to cater for the traffic variation between services and between cells, a dynamic channel partitioning with flexible channel combination scheme, called FDCP, is proposed to support multiple services. This FDCP tries to minimize the effect of assigned channels on the availability of channels for use in the interfering cells. The analysis and the simulation results show that for equal arrival rate of two services, the proposed FCP and FDCP scheme can provide about 32% and 54% improvement, respectively, in terms of grade of service as compared with conventional FCA scheme using a single reuse factor to support two services for the mobile users. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive resource allocation for prioritized call admission over anATM-based wireless PCN

In future personal communications networks (PCNs) supporting network-wide handoffs, new and handoff requests will compete for connection resources in both the mobile and backbone networks. Forced call terminations due to handoff call blocking are generally more objectionable than new call blocking. The previously proposed guard channel scheme for radio channel allocation in cellular networks reduces handoff call blocking probability substantially at the expense of slight increases in new call blocking probability by giving resource access priority to handoff calls over new calls in call admission control. While the effectiveness of a fixed number of guard channels has been demonstrated under stationary traffic conditions, with nonstationary call arrival rates in a practical system, the achieved handoff call blocking probability may deviate significantly from the desired objective. We propose a novel dynamic guard channel scheme which adapts the number of guard channels in each cell according to the current estimate of the handoff call arrival rate derived from the current number of ongoing calls in neighboring cells and the mobility pattern, so as to keep the handoff call blocking probability close to the targeted objective while constraining the new call blocking probability to be below a given level. The proposed scheme is applicable to channel allocation over cellular mobile networks, and is extended to bandwidth allocation over the backbone network to enable a unified approach to prioritized call admission control over the ATM-based PCN     

PERFORMANCE STUDY OF AN INTEGRATED SATELLITE/TERRESTRIAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Terrestrial cellular networks and mobile satellite systems are expected to converge towards a future integrated satellite/terrestrial mobile communication network. Besides a system globalization, the integration of terrestrial and satellite mobile systems will lead to the unloading of the fixed part of the mobile network. This paper proposes an integrated satellite/terrestrial mobile communication system and evaluates its performance in terms of the blocking probability for new call attempts, the call dropping probability and the probability of unsuccessful call. This communication system was simulated and its performence compared with that of a stand-alone terrestrial mobile system. In the terrestrial part of the system we have considered fixed channel allocation (FCA) and dynamic channel allocation (DCA) techniques. Satellite channels can have equal or lower priority compared to terrestrial channels. The improvement of the system performance by means of satellite-to-terrestrial handovers was also estimated.     

宽带卫星Mesh网多址接入信道预测分配方案研究

该文针对具有网状(Mesh)拓扑结构的宽带卫星通信网,研究了分布式控制多址接入信道分配策略。提出了一种基于自相似业务流量混沌预测的混合动态分配方案。利用OPNET软件建立了仿真系统,研究比较了信道分配周期、信道负载以及业务流自相似程度对几种方案性能的影响。仿真结果表明,对于采用地球同步轨道(GEO)卫星、低轨(LEO)和中轨(MEO)卫星星座的宽带卫星Mesh网,所提出方案在高信道负载条件下都具有明显的优势。     

A learning approach for prioritized handoff channel allocation in mobile multimedia networks

An efficient channel allocation policy that prioritizes handoffs is an indispensable ingredient in future cellular networks in order to support multimedia traffic while ensuring quality of service requirements (QoS). In this paper we study the application of a reinforcement-learning algorithm to develop an alternative channel allocation scheme in mobile cellular networks that supports multiple heterogeneous traffic classes. The proposed scheme prioritizes handoff call requests over new calls and provides differentiated services for different traffic classes with diverse characteristics and quality of service requirements. Furthermore, it is asymptotically optimal, computationally inexpensive, model-free, and can adapt to changing traffic conditions. Simulations are provided to compare the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with other known resource-sharing policies such as complete sharing and reservation policies     

End-to-End Adaptive QoS Provisioning over GPRS Wireless Mobile Network

The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offers performance guaranteed packet data services to mobile users over wireless frequency-division duplex links with time division multiple access, and core packet data networks. This paper presents a dynamic adaptive guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning scheme over GPRS wireless mobile links by proposing a guaranteed QoS media access control (GQ-MAC) protocol and an accompanying adaptive prioritized-handoff call admission control (AP-CAC) protocol to maintain GPRS QoS guarantees under the effect of mobile handoffs. The GQ-MAC protocol supports bounded channel access delay for delay-sensitive traffic, bounded packet loss probability for loss-sensitive traffic, and dynamic adaptive resource allocation for bursty traffic with peak bandwidth allocation adapted to the current queue length. The AP-CAC protocol provides dynamic adaptive prioritized admission by differentiating handoff requests with higher admission priorities over new calls via a dynamic multiple guard channels scheme, which dynamically adapts the capacity reserved for dealing with handoff requests based on the current traffic conditions in the neighboring radio cells. Integrated services (IntServ) QoS provisioning over the IP/ATM-based GPRS core network is realized over a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) architecture, and mobility is supported over the core network via a novel mobile label-switching tree (MLST) architecture. End-to-end QoS provisioning over the GPRS wireless mobile network is realized by mapping between the IntServ and GPRS QoS requirements, and by extending the AP-CAC protocol from the wireless medium to the core network to provide a unified end-to-end admission control with dynamic adaptive admission priorities.     

Bounding the performance of dynamic channel allocation with QoSprovisioning for distributed admission control in wireless networks

We investigate the performance of distributed admission control with quality of service (QoS) provisioning and dynamical channel allocation for mobile/wireless networks where the co-channel reuse distance is considered as the only limiting factor to channel sharing. We first provide a QoS metric feasible for admission control with dynamically allocated channels. We then derive a criterion analytically using the QoS measure for distributed call admission control with dynamic channel allocation (DCA). When maximum packing is used as the DCA scheme, the results obtained are independent of any particular algorithm that implements dynamic channel assignments. Our results, thereby, provide the optimal performance achievable for the distributed admission control with the QoS provisioning by the best DCA scheme in the given setting     

An adaptive measured-based preassignment scheme withconnection-level QoS support for mobile networks

This paper presents a new adaptive bandwidth allocation scheme to prevent handoff failure in wireless cellular networks, known as the measurement-based preassignment (MPr) technique. This technique is particularly useful in micro/pico cellular networks which offers quality-of-service (QoS) guarantee against call dropping. The proposed MPr scheme distinguishes itself from the well-known guarded channel (GC) based schemes in that it allows the handoff calls to utilize a prereserved channel pool before competing for the shared channels with new call arrivals. The key advantage of the proposed MPr scheme is that it enables easy derivation of the number of channels that needs to be reserved for handoff based on a predetermined handoff dropping probability, without the need for solving the often complex Markov chain required in GC schemes, thus, making the proposed MPr scheme simple and efficient for implementation. This is essential in handling multiple traffic types with potentially different QoS requirements. In addition, the MPr scheme is adaptive in that it can dynamically adjust the number of reserved channels for the handoff according to the periodical measurement of the traffic status within a local cell, thus completely eliminating the signaling overhead for status information exchange among cells mandated in most existing channel allocation schemes. Numerical results and comparisons are given to illustrate the tradeoff     

Resource allocation for cellular radio systems

High terminal traffic densities are expected in urban multiuser radio systems. An efficient allocation of resources is the key to high system capacity. In this paper, a distributed dynamic resource allocation (DDRA) scheme based on local signal and interference measurements is proposed for multiuser radio networks. It offers “soft capacity” for time division multiple access (TDMA) and frequency division multiple access (FDMA) systems, bounded above by N per base station, where N is the total number of channels in the system. The decisions are made local to a terminal and its base and are essentially independent of the rest of the system. A distributed dynamic channel assignment scheme is used to assign channels to new calls. This scheme assigns a channel that offers the maximum carrier to interference ratio (CIR) to a new call. A distributed constrained power control (DCPC) scheme based on CIR measurements is used for power control. The channel assignment scheme and the power control scheme are coupled to obtain an interactive resource allocation scheme. We compare the capacity of a system which uses the distributed dynamic resource allocation scheme described above with the capacity of a system which uses the channel assignment scheme alone. The system capacity is measured by simulation as the number of terminals that can be served by the system with a CIR above an acceptable minimum. In a 1D cellular system, coupling the channel assignment scheme with power control is discussed. Simulations were also used to show the effect of varying the maximum transmitter power on system capacity     

A New Connection Admission Control for Spotbeam Handover in LEO Satellite Networks

Frequent spotbeam handovers in low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks require a technique to decrease the handover blocking probabilities. A large variety of schemes have been proposed to achieve this goal in terrestrial mobile cellular networks. Most of them focus on the notion of prioritized channel allocation algorithms. However, these schemes cannot provide the connection-level quality of service (QoS) guarantees. Due to the scarcity of resources in LEO satellite networks, a connection admission control (CAC) technique becomes important to achieve this connection-level QoS for the spotbeam handovers. In this paper, a geographical connection admission control (GCAC) algorithm is introduced, which estimates the future handover blocking performance of a new call attempt based on the user location database, in order to decrease the handover blocking. Also, for its channel allocation scheme, an adaptive dynamic channel allocation (ADCA) scheme is introduced. By simulation, it is shown that the proposed GCAC with ADCA scheme guarantees the handover blocking probability to a predefined target level of QoS. Since GCAC algorithm utilizes the user location information, performance evaluation indicates that the quality of service (QoS) is also guaranteed in the non-uniform traffic pattern.     

3G动态预留呼叫接纳控制算法研究

第三代移动通信技术支持不同服务质量(QoS)的多媒体业务,而呼叫接纳控制(CAC)技术是移动通信中的关键技术之一.本文提出一种动态预留呼叫接纳控制算法,该算法根据小区中各业务的话务量预测各业务所需信道教,从而为切换业务和新业务预留一定的信道.通过比较动态预留算法与新呼叫受限算法和中断优先级算法的性能,得出动态预留算法在降低语音和数据业务的呼叫阻塞率、中断率方面有明显的改善,是一种比较理想的呼叫接纳控制算法.     

FDMA/DAMA卫星通信网资源分配策略研究

FDMA/DAMA卫星通信网的资源分配过程是为满足卫星链路高效、可靠使用卫星资源的综合决策过程。地球站参数、卫星参数、载波调制编码方式和雨衰等都是影响高效、可靠分配卫星资源的重要因素。在综合分析多种影响链路可用性因素基础上,提出了适用于FDMA/DAMA卫星通信网的资源动态分配策略,并设计了具体的分配流程和软件实现方案。通过比较某系统优化前后的运行数据,测试验证了优化分配策略的有效性和科学性。     

Performance analysis of A dynamic channel allocation technique for satellite mobile cellular networks

This paper deals with an efficient dynamic channel allocation (DCA) technique suitable for applications in mobile satellite cellular networks. A cost function is defined to allow an optimum selection of channels to be allocated on demand. A mobility model suitable for low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems is presented. The performance of the novel DCA technique in terms of call blocking probability has been derived by simulations. The obtained results are compared with those achieved by a fixed channel allocation (FCA) technique to show a better behaviour.     

Flexible transmission bandwidth management with effective channelreservation techniques for NGSO MSS networks

This paper describes efficient transmission bandwidth management based on flexible channel assignment and effective grade of service (GOS) control methods for nongeostationary orbit mobile satellite service (NGSO MSS) networks. Our basic approach for the flexible channel assignment is to use linear programming (FLEXCA-LP), and to apply the column generation technique for further reduction of the total bandwidth requirement. These methods efficiently assign channels, taking account of moving spot beam coverage and dynamic traffic load variation for large-scale networks. The GOS is investigated for the channel assignment by FLEXCA-LP to make the GOS of ongoing calls better than that of fresh calls as stipulated in ITU-T Recommendations. We propose a few effective means to improve the results of FLEXCA-LP by reducing the disruption possibility of ongoing calls. One is to add channels utilizing a hysteresis concept. The others are effective use of GOS control techniques for NGSO MSS networks. These techniques are evaluated by a simulation study to identify promising techniques. Under time-variant conditions, we show that a reliable channel assignment plan is generated first by FLEXCA-LP considering the traffic load of fresh calls only and then by GOS control techniques to improve handover failure and call disruption rates     

Efficient dynamic channel allocation techniques with handoverqueuing for mobile satellite networks

Efficient dynamic channel allocation techniques with handover queuing suitable for applications in mobile satellite cellular networks, are discussed. The channel assignment on demand is performed on the basis of the evaluation of a suitable cost function. Geostationary and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites have been considered. In order to highlight the better performance of the dynamic techniques proposed, a performance comparison with a classical fixed channel allocation (FCA) has been carried out, as regards the probability that a newly arriving call is not completely served. It has also been shown that a higher traffic density, with respect to GEO systems, is manageable by means of LEO satellites